Spotlight will not search Calendar events past one year (?)

I have many years worth of events in my Calendar and I transferred them all to my iPod Touch since I need to refer to old events (freelance jobs) for work needs. Spotlight searches will not show events older than 1 year (which would be a ridiculous limitation). Anyone else having the same experience?

I am here looking for a solution to the same problem. Who writes a Calendar search function that only goes back 1 year? (I mean, really) I have to go iCal on my iMac to find older events, and my events go back 10 years these days since I use the Calendar as a type of journal (the calendar data were imported from my Palm III -> V -> Vx -> Zire). Most annoying during meetings when I continually have to respond with "I have to get back to you on that" on anything of personal historical significance. Is there nothing out there that will do an exhaustive search? Please don't tell me I have to wait for my computer science students to get a job at Apple to have this feature properly implemented.

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Here is what happened.
Finder hard crashed so badly that it required that I shut off the computer.(Mac Pro) I could not even bring up force quit.
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I did the steps to add the hard drives to the Privacy tab in preferences and removed to force the reindexing the drives two times now. Even after that, it still produces the same action. I can type in the search term(s) and nothing happens.
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neither does spotlight search.
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I have multiple events in my calendar and I tested them and the last I can find is within 365 days of today. after that events cannot be found.
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this has already been answered.
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